No.

for resale purposes its no longer your house, plenty of people shop just for historical homes. I would be focused on decluttering your home, tho it is very nice, renting a storage unit and getting down to the bare bones is going to get you more money then spending it on paint.

If this house dates to the early 20th century I would beg you not to paint the woodwork white. @RL Relocation LLC's advice is on the money.

are you selling it now? If so, leave it.

If you intend to live there for awhile, do what suites you.

Who worries about resale if you are living in the home now?

If that's the case, we'd all be living in beige.

I was going to say YES but the two prior post make an excellent point. I would let the wood stay.

No.

Pls leave it! Hard to see in much detail, but looks to me like size, quality of wood is excellent. At that age it was almost certainly old growth timber harvested from the original forests that blanketed much of North America - even if its "only" pine or fir (once considered cheap wood), it will be denser, harder, more beautiful than any farmed wood you can get today. If you dont believe me take a look at prices in architectural salvage places! Be sure your realtor is appreciative of the materials in this house and markets it accordingly. Consider that painting wood is FAR FAR easier than stripping it off - which means a new owner can always choose to paint it, if they want. Whereas stripping it off.... it truly is not as easy as some make it out to be, and if paint is embedded deep within the pores of the wood then its game over. That cannot be undone.

Beautiful original woodwork in fabulous condition. Leave it! It is not uncommon to have private rooms with painted woodwork vs. public spaces…..

no

Its lovely - keep it :)

I swear I was the first commenter on here, but am not seeing my post now. I don’t think I said anything naughty.

My vote was not to paint it, it’s beautiful. :)

Please don't paint it. I rented an apartment in a Brooklyn brownstone, that use to be the second floor. I loved the wood trim and even spent time restoring it to it original glory. The landlord, who lived downstairs, was so happy.

Leave the trim alone, the wood has such richness to it and is beautiful.

Thanks everyone ! Confirmed our thoughts we love it but move quite a bit due to jobs often at short notice . We are getting ready to do some work in other parts of the house and DH asked if painting woodwork would help with resale . When I started to look at sales in our area every older home had painted the original woodwork so I began to question what we should do . You all just made the decision easy 😉 THANK YOU !

HELL NO. Current market you could paint it pink and it will sell. Leave it. If they want to ruin it let them. Painting over this would be impossible to undo.

Please don't paint the wood. I live in an old house in a historic district and I can't tell you how many people ruin the homes because they want it to look modern and new. Its an old house with lots of charm. Please don't paint the wood.

Not only should you not paint it, it would be worth it to strip and restore any original woodwork that has been painted. Original features and original materials add tremendous value to an older home.

I swear I was the first commenter on here, but am not seeing my post now. I don’t think I said anything naughty.

Jinx, there are two identical threads running at the same time with responses on both.

Thank you, jellytoast! Glad to know that — I thought I was in trouble. :D

Absolutely not.